: This paper describes the implementation of a meta-heuristic optimization approach, Tabu Search (TS), for Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) synthesis and compares this approach to oth...
Knowing the excluded minors for a minor-closed matroid property provides a useful alternative characterization of that property. It has been shown in [R. Hall, J. Oxley, C. Semple...
Abstract. We investigate the evolutionary processes behind the development and optimization of multiple threads of execution in digital organisms using the avida platform, a softwa...
Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier,...
In this paper we present a method of describing microprocessors at different levels of temporal and data abstraction. We consider microprogrammed, pipelined and superscalar proces...
Our proposed approach to text and line-art extraction requires accurately locating a text-string box and identifying external line vectors incident on the box. The results of extra...
Luyang Li, George Nagy, Ashok Samal, Sharad C. Set...